How To Install conman on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install conman on Kali Linux.

What is conman

conman is:

ConMan is a serial console management program designed to support a large number of console devices and simultaneous users. It supports: - local serial devices - remote terminal servers (via the telnet protocol) - IPMI Serial-Over-LAN (via FreeIPMI) - Unix domain sockets - external processes (e.g., using Expect for telnet / ssh / ipmi-sol connections) Its features include: - logging (and optionally timestamping) console device output to file - connecting to consoles in monitor (R/O) or interactive (R/W) mode - allowing clients to share or steal console write privileges - broadcasting client output to multiple consoles

There are three methods to install conman on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install conman Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install conman using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install conman

Install conman Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install conman using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install conman

Install conman Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install conman using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install conman

How To Uninstall conman on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the conman package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove conman

Uninstall conman And Its Dependencies

To uninstall conman and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove conman

Remove conman Configurations and Data

To remove conman configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge conman

Remove conman configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove conman configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge conman

Dependencies

conman have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libipmiconsole2
• libwrap0

References

• conman website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install conman package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.